Proverbs - Crowns

Proverbs 17:6

                                                                     

Children's children are the crown of old men;

and the glory of children are their fathers.

A crown is something that shows influence and authority.  The crown signifies that a person has some sort of authority over all he or she oversees.  When we were raised by our fathers, the Lord intends many of those things to be passed down to our children.  Even if our earthly fathers were poor examples, we learned from their bad examples as well and they serve as a warning to our children.  Perhaps the heritage you have is not being valued enough in making decisions for your children.  Consider what sort of influence your father should have when making decisions for you children.

Secondly, we must stay in prayer for our husbands and draw attention to their strengths in the sight of our children.  When we praise our children’s fathers to them, we help them shine.  When we are driving along in the car with them we can start a conversation about what we admire about them and why we love them.  When our husbands do something for the children it would be good to point it out to them. Children can often be ignorant in their self absorbed ways of what their fathers are doing for them.  We are called to reverence our husbands and one way to do this is to bring attention to those things worthy of praise in our children’s fathers.

If we don’t have any children, we can certainly influence other children to see their fathers in the light of praise.  We can talk to children after church or send a card to a nephew or niece telling them what we admire about their fathers.  We can be a part of building up a Christian home so that when the enemy comes in we will be part of the standard that the Lord is raising up.